2nd Amendment Advocates Express Their 1st Amendment Right to Be Assholes

Gun rights advocates proudly flaunt their weapons during protest at the Washington State Capitol yesterday. Because they’re assholes.

To be clear, if I were to walk onto the floor of Washington State’s house or senate chambers wearing a bulletproof vest atop my jacket and tie, I would be removed for violating the dress code. But asshole gun nuts like those pictured above are free to open-carry semi-automatic weapons into the galleries above the chambers. God bless America!

@2 That is because they are terrorists. A bunch of yahoo terrorists but terrorists all the same. They want to advance their political agenda through fear and intimidation, the very definition of terrorism. It is no surprise that the whole open carry thing is a republican phenomenon – right wingers rail against tyranny and pretend guns will prevent it but the reality is that ideologically they have a very authoritarian mindset. The number one threat to American democracy and the few remaining ‘freedoms’ left to us is not radical Islam but home-grown right-wing American terrorism – like those clowns in the picture.

These guys have accomplished something I thought not possible: they have made me a supporter of the Bush Doctrine. Obviously, they hate us for our freedom enough to kill us. The only possible course of action is to kill them first.

Roger Rabbit Commentary: My guess is she’s a home-schooled libertarian. Maybe one of the same people who, not long ago, were screaming for Kari Hickox to be quarantined against her will (and in ignorance of sound medical science).

@4: In an environment where on the one hand you have a government vacuuming up literally every piece of digital communication and performing warrantless searches 24×7, and on the other hand a worldwide cult that is actively trying to behead or shoot blasphemers (and often succeeding), “home grown right wing terrorism” is the biggest threat we face? Really?

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

I think if constitutional originalists were honest, they would admit that in a time when the quick mobilization of citizen militia (organized and well regulated) was a necessity for the young country to establish itself and remain ready to mount a defense against foreign enemies, the current mania of allowing any Bozo to walk around fully armed as if an invasion were imminent is as near to the original intent of the founding father’s as ‘Clear-Channel’ is to the original intent of the first amendment.

“Fifty-six percent of domestic terrorist attacks and plots in the U.S. since 1995 have been perpetrated by right-wing extremists, as compared to 30 percent by ecoterrorists and 12 percent by Islamic extremists. Right-wing extremism has been responsible for the greatest number of terrorist incidents in the U.S. in 13 of the 17 years since the Oklahoma City bombing.”

Methinks that this should not be allowed in the chambers of the house. if signs are not allowed, pointing guns at the ceiling should not be allowed – no matter how stupid the people are who are doing it.

Terrorism is terrorism, no matter who carries it out… but the threats (and indeed actions already carried out) by Right-wing terrorists pales in comparison to what the United States and the world face from Islamic terrorists.

I guess what gets me most about too many 2nd Amendment groups is the undeniable racial element to it all. Far too often it’s not about the right to bear. It’s about the right of white people to bear. Where were these guys when Governor Reagan freaked out about the Panthers carrying in public? The first major restrictions in the modern era of gun control were born right there and Saint Reagan delivered the baby.

Seems so long as local (non-federal) law enforcement are compliant in gleefully blasting away at every African American pre-adolescent foolish enough to wield a Super Soaker in public, then the ‘baggers are all about the 2nd Amendment. It’s really a perfect arrangement: everyone enjoys the “right” to bear arms in public, but if you happen to be non-white it’ll probably get you killed by the police. It may not be “equal protection” but the cynic in me thinks this is exactly what white folks have in mind when they combine expansive right to bear with aggressive militarized policing. For non-whites, right to bear equals right to bleed to death while cops stand around and watch.

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